Using Twitter Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails

Step by step guide to integrate Twitter Bootstrap with Ruby on Rails application. Please note that after these steps, your application layout file will be replaced with default one.

Step1: Add gem to your Gemfile

gem 'twitter-bootstrap-rails'

Step 2: Install required gem. To do that, on terminal, run
bundle install

Step 3: Run bootstrap install scripts using following command

rails g bootstrap:install static

Step 4: Update application layouts

rails g bootstrap:layout [LAYOUT_NAME]
e.g
rails g bootstrap:layout application fixed
rails g bootstrap:layout application fluid

Step 5: To generate Bootstrap compatible scaffold views, use
rails g bootstrap:themed [RESOURCE_NAME]
e.g
rails g bootstrap:themed Restaurants

Be very careful that these generators will overwrite existing files thus removing previous content.

Step 6: Asset precompilation using
rake assets:precompile

Step 7: Don't forget to restart your application using
touch tmp/restart.txt